dULY 1 b, I 32. 6 and it's been maturing for ten years or so; just waiting now for the u ptu rn or a bright, sunny day, or some- thing. A friend tells us that he saw a vVall Street floor man's order book about a week ago, con- taining Big Names who were ordering blocks of North American stock. North Ameri- can, the father of the scheme, is an eight- h un dre d - million - dollar public-utility h 0 I din g company. This con- cern has been working on Wired Radio, as it is called, since 1921. To understand it fully, you must know all about kilocycles and such, but brie fly it is this: Pro- grams will go out of New York on long- distance telephone wires (which American Tel & Tel has agreed to lease, we hear) to electric-light substations in various cities; the substations will relay the programs over electric-light wires into homes. You put the plug of your Wired Radio set into any light socket, and get entertainment unmixed with blurbs. Numerous technicians have been working on the apparatus, etc., for ten years, ending up in a laboratory cover- ing an acre in Ampere, N. J. In 1 922, Wired Radio, Inc., a subsidiary of North American, was organized, and it has perfected six kinds of re- ceiving set. They are fixed so that by turning a switch you can get regu- lar radio broadcasting too, if you want it. Seventy-eight monster switch- boards have been made at Ampere for use in the substations, to take the pro- grams off the phone wires and put them on the light wires, and also for installation in the forty studios which Wired Radio proposes to set up in New York. Six years ago, North American organized another subsidiary, Associat- ed Music Publishers, Inc., to take care of the program end of things. It now imports eighty per cent of the music that comes into the country, and has almost a million scores of classical mu- sic of all kinds on hand; has the largest single collection of operas and operettas in the world, we are told; owns many .' . ":"::::' .0." .,-:. , . . \ "",.,. ",<., " ' ;1í: :: ,'. ,,3'\. .. . .. , "tdF :::: . ", .: :: (?:::t ............ .::*:........ -:::" .:.:.; ::::?:l{\ ::""::; -: "First the whole , houseparty came down with pink eye. But that was nothing to what happened next!" :, :...:< , ,.Æ::"::#:' ... . :W: >::;::* -:;:?i :> illf " ",,, '% :;;: :: :::::::":::::': :::: ;;t':;:' ": . :N :: .' ,.,:::::.:1::: } " ." .....:.;...:.;.- ./ t@ff: . ,:, 'ü' . ;.....:!...::..{! .' ,l; t,, 't ,j :::::t: " . :::. ::: ; " . :) :'.. ;.:...-:. ".:.:::t.:. ". .;7 "'" ,:' .::::::;!tt ::' '; ':::":':: . ':::..::::::- <:: :: :':""':'. ::." . . ...:.;..... . ....: ' . .. :: :.:.: : : . ':.:::' ". ..:', . ., %.' '1} . j, -- f · ' A j .J J .. '"" : ., ,W< ...:.. ß< '.'j...';r,",'! "". . '; ' j #,> "<<.$.( 4::;::: , ' , .. ,d ", '''''':'-', ;,.,-,.,,< , ;::::'Æ,::, , ,tt:: ':::::::\ ' , .'.. ,"',w 0/< vf.i!S', -- "" 7 "''''.''': '%:<-':" /:M_ . ::-:..;v.... <::'" ---...... .. ..... vv :<...A>.,: ;: :; ;j/ : ' : >,; i-f, i E'*l :'h, , """-' , r' '; "\J ' ) :1: ":',,,<, " -/\ <0> ",';_ "', """,' '/"À 'I""v"' -' '; 0 , . .> ' ,;? Q ,,- . :; ,. ,. ' , ' . : " .., - /^" ' ,',' ":':':::' :':'::" : \:: ::::: .. ...:" :::: .::'. .. : -, ' ". ........... ?:1! f. !.?r ":':.;'.' :$':/t, {ifi1:!;:}:. :.:.:...... ' l ' . '''' "",.,4 '. ,\)/,:.. '::::.':'.'..:."':;::::' \.. , -+< .::::::::::::<-".. . : 7 / \ had, in fact, come perilously close to getting fired. We mention this to in- dicate our disapproval of the sort of guff that business houses like to print about themselves. practice hour that one of the guards turned to a bystander (a lady with a toy dog) and asked wistfully if she could tell him how to spell "com- 0" 0 0 mIttee -an Inner necessIty from which the lady fled screaming into the sea. Warming Up I T was still early for bathers, so the lifeguards on Jones' Beach were out practicing. Dressed in white slacks, green sweaters, and gob hats, they made quite a show of it, practicing at semaphoring with red and white flags. F or a while they simply sig- nalled back and forth the trite but timely ad vice that "Now is the time for all good men, etc." j\.t length they tired of that and went into "z"s and " "0 d h f 11 . q s In or er t at persons 0 a natIon- alities might have a good chance at the beach this summer; If not of a rescue, at least of an accurate report of the âccident. It was along toward thp end of the W ired Radio W E have been hearing whispers for some time now of a monster substitute for radio broadcasting, which is getting all ready to substitute. It 1S to be done with wires. You will be able to plug a special kind of cabinet into any electric-light socket around the house and get music, travel talks, and news items, without a single word of twaddle or blah about commercial products. Wired Radio will also be free from static, interference, and fa- ding. The receiving sets will rent at rates varying from two to five dollars a month. That, anyway, is the plan